Thursday, January 31, 2013

On the topic of Guns, Accoutrements, and the idiots who "Represent" us:

I have had just about enough of the queue of lambasting
idiots whose sole desire is to control every aspect of American's lives. Their
bloated exhortations about things they obviously know nothing about has risen
to the level of epidemic. What is more troublesome is that there seems to be an
unending assortment and number of mixed nuts fully prepared to accept any edict
these windbags hand down from their lofty "thrones" in the City of
the Dead (DC) while the combined knowledge of both exhorter and audience, if
melted down and strained couldn't fill a thimble!

I am sick to the point of retching of listening to the absolute
nonsensical sputtering about firearms by those who can't differentiate between
a butt stock and a flash suppressor so here is a short lesson in nomenclature to make you sound less stupid:

FIRST, they are not "clips", they are magazines
and the semi-automatic AR-15 is not "an assault rifle" any more than
a baseball bat, hammer, kitchen knife, scarf, rope, lead pipe, pipe wrench,
automobile, hands, feet, stick, screw driver, torch, et al all of which have
been used at one time or another to "assault" someone by a deranged
person.

The "shoulder thingy that goes up" is a folding
butt stock on a very few long guns most notably, the SPAS shotgun which is no
longer manufactured. The correct description of what this particular dingbat in
Congress was trying to describe, is, an adjustable butt stock. Its crime is
making itself available for shooters of varying shapes and sizes - including
women for whom many rifles are too large to fire accurately and painlessly.

A bayonet lug is a superfluous piece of equipment - for
almost anyone, in or out of uniform and does not contribute to the mental
deficiency that denies a person the ability to know it is wrong to kill.
A sling swivel is a mounting point for a sling which is used in competition and
to carry a rifle over the shoulder for most civilians and while there are some
really neat 1, 2 and 3 point slings on the market, no one except a seasoned and
well-trained professional has a need for it or would even know how to use it.
And NO; it does not make the rifle more lethal or the operator more proficient.

A flash suppressor is not a lethal device. It is used to
reduce the light signature of escaping gases from the muzzle of the rifle so
the enemy has a more difficult time registering your position and dropping
mortars and artillery on your head. Being as there isn't much in the way of
danger from ordinance here in the civilian world, it is superfluous. And just
because it is superfluous is no reason to ban it. It does not make the rifle
more lethal or the operator more proficient. It does, however, make the rifle
compliant with long distance rifle matches hosted around the country and at
Camp Perry every year.

A pistol grip has sent many a "sensitive
anti-gunner" into orbit. Here's the skinny: All things being equal, I
prefer a straight stock. Contorting your hand and wrist to accommodate a pistol
grip actually take some practice and again, does nothing to make the rifle more
lethal or the operator more proficient. So, get over it!

A magazine with any number of rounds is of ZERO use to
someone who is not well-trained with the rifle or handgun it supports and no;
Newtown doesn't count because at the grand distance of about 25 feet, he could
have caused as much damage with a pile of rocks.

Magazines hold cartridges - not bullets! The ammunition
that the Military uses does not possess "magical properties"
delivering greater lethality. The fact is, military grade ammunition is
designed to meet the requirements of the Geneva Conventions which requires full
metal jacket bullets to reduce expansion and associated lethality which in turn
reduces damage to the flesh, increasing the probability of survival. This also,
then makes this ammunition terrible for hunting. In comparison, a hunting
bullet, fired from even a bolt action rifle is far more lethal.

Finally; for all of you "sheeple" who
mindlessly "feel" your way to decisions that could ultimately
eliminate first the 2nd Amendment and eventually, the entire Bill of Rights;
get your bloody heads out of the clouds and do a little research so you won't appear
to be the blustering idiots you currently sound like. And if you insist on
allowing others to represent your sorry opinions of something that is no more
than a tool, in the hands of a law abiding citizen, at least get someone who
doesn't make the rest of us feel embarrassed to be a member of the same
species!

If any of you, left of center would like legitimate
questions answered…please feel free to ask them. And no; I will not get drawn
into an inane conversation filled with semantics and sensationalism. The fact
is, our murder rate isn't even half of what the United Kingdom's is even though
there are no more firearms available to their "subjects". Currently
the weapon of choice in "merry ole England" is a knife which
Parliament is in the process of outlawing.

In this country, last year, 323 people were killed by
someone brandishing an AR-15 or AK-47 style, semi-automatic rifle while in that
same year, nearly 700 people were killed by a hammer!

18 comments:

I hear your frustration. This is more of the left press running the country using the same tools they use to win elections.

You are right there is no such thing as an Assault Weapon. As you said, surely you can assault someone with a gun, knife or even a tuna fish sandwich. Hey maybe ATF stands for Assault Tuna Fish?

People hear AR-15 and think it means "Automatic Rifle" or Assault Rifle", but it really is the model number and first two letters of the original manufacturer/designer: ArmaLite.

It drives me crazy to hear all this being pushed. Instead of trying to unarm the good guys, lets teach some good old fashioned self-defense, and not hide in closets when our establishments get attacked.

If I'm in a building and someone comes in with intent to harm... I'm going in fighting, and that's even if I'm alone. I can't imagine someone taking over an entire establishment regardless of how many weapons or what kind they have.

They are trying to make us afraid of guns, but as a martial artist, I've learned that I'd rather face someone with a gun than a kitchen knife... and I mean that.

You'd better be careful what you say about the hammer. Next thing you know they will be banning your Porter Cable finish nailer, and you'll need a license to carry an Estwing.

We all know this has absolutely nothing to do with weapons or the furniture they are "adorned" in. It has everything to do with the eventual disarmament of the general population of this nation. And there are only two reasons for it; the first is for control and the second, abject fear.

Much of this comes from the unbiblical belief that men are basically "good" and that the meer presence of something like a firearm can cause an otherwise meek, mild and loving individual to become unhinged and desire to kill.

It is the same lunacy that at the same time chooses to legalize drugs which serve no purpose other than to put people into a stupor. And no; the argument that equates drugs and Alchohol is not even remotely legitimate because there is a reasonable quantity of alchoholic beverage a person can drink without being impaired while the same is not true about drugs. If someone drinks themselves into a haze, it is a question of judgment - not substance.

In any case, this whole discussion is really about whether we choose to remain a free people or simply subjects.

Ha ha ha ha ah!!! I can't stop laughing. I love your talent for writing and progression of thought. But try not to hold back so much!! I mean: "Finally; for all of you "sheeple" who mindlessly "feel" your way to decisions ...." Ha ha ha ha!! I heard Sen. Dianne Frankenstein on Meet to Press say that if you collapse the stock on an A R 15 it turns it into a machine gun. And she's their point person? That's who's leading our country and drafting legislation? She needs to ask her Indian Spirit Guide for more technical assistance!Thanks John.

Knew we were headed down a frightening path when that wonderful California Senator stated, "Put simply, we cannot allow the rights of the few to override the safety of all. That is not the America that our founding fathers envisioned." The masses seemed to lap it up, and it appears things are going quickly downhill from there.

First off, they are not the rights of the few, but the rights of all! These rights do not come from the Constitution or the government, they do not come from anybody but God. The framers stated this outright and designed the Constitution as an attempt to keep governmental control from interfering with those rights. As has been plainly spoken by many in powerful positions, they believe our rights to be a dispensation of government, thus the U.S. Constitution merely gets in the way and must be changed in order to fulfill the needs of government. Very strange indeed, since it was supposed to be for the needs of "We the People", and not the needs of government.

Second, she obviously knows nothing of U.S history, or she wouldn't be able to make a statement about the founding fathers like that. In fact, it's the exact opposite of what was stated by Benjamin Franklin when in 1775 he said, "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Unfortunately, the framers of the Constitution forgot to put up safeguards to protect against stupidity.

Good article but you are wrong in your assertion of the UK murder rate. In fact the US rate is four times that of the UK. This is easily checked via wikipedia etc.However, "violent crime" is categorized in a totally different way. In the UK you have do not even have to hurt someone to be guilty of a violent crime now. There are still thousands of legally held firearms in the UK but it is very difficult to legally acquire a handgun.

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I spent 26 years in the USMC, both active and reserve and have spent 50 years in the trade. I characterize myself as a political conservative. I am a Christian and believe our country was founded, largely by Christian men and men who ascribed their beliefs to something far greater than themselves. I do not believe the US Constitution is a 'living document' anymore than I believe we can remain the United States of America should we choose to 'morph' into some other ideology, vision, or entity not consistent with the vision of the founders. I believe we have an innate responsibility to defend these shores, it's citizenry and especially the US Constitution and further believe the oath I took IS UNTO DEATH. I have been married for 30 years and have one daughter and one son (KIA Dahaneh 08/14/09)and who is now safe and resting in the arms of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I miss him!